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A vote of confidence on the floor of the Assembly on January 2, 2014, with AAP's 28 members, seven Congress members, one JD(U) MLA member and one independent in favor, sealed the deal for Kejriwal and his party. Before the vote, Kejriwal made the case for AAP and the common man in a speech:

Who is an aam aadmi? AAP believes that the middle class is part of the aam aadmi, anyone who is tired of this corrupt system is aam aadmi.

I was reading two people died of cold in Delhi. Millions have been spent after independence and perhaps this could have been avoided if the money was well-spent. Where did all the money go? The aam aadmi wants to know. We must acknowledge that politics in this country has been criminalised.

The speech generated much buzz on Twitter:

Moved to tears with #arvind kejriwals speech. I promise today to vote for #aap and support them in any way I can. Damn all other partys

There is no doubt that now more and more people are only talking about politics in India. Whatever decision AAP take is with the consent of general public.

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AAP created a history in the Indian political era. During the short period of time AAP gets so much of popularity which is some how a strange thing. And during it’s 49 days of work AAP has done much work for the Delhi people which leads AAP to the national level politics.